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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Special Offer!
Great Northern Insulation (GNI) is currently running a special promotion that will help you save while helping the community at the same time! Here is how the promotion works: I. GNI will donate a fleece blanket to the Salvation Army … Continue reading
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Tagged Bills, Insulation, insulation retrofit, special offer, Utility Bills
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Great News: Ontario Keeps ecoEnergy Program Alive
On April 19, the Ontario Provincial Government annouced that it will continue to fund new pre-retrofit audits. The province will rebate up to $150 for home energy audits, and will also provide up to $5000 in retrofit rebates. The Federal … Continue reading
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Tagged ecoEnergy, ecoEnergy rebate, energy audit, Insulation, retrofit
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Great Northern Insulation: Making the Trade Show Rounds
The 2010 Spring/Summer trade show season has already kicked off, and the coming weekend will be a busy one for Great Northern Insulation (GNI). We’ll be at two trade shows this weekend, one in London and the other in Owen … Continue reading
Insulation’s for all seasons?
It’s a beautiful Friday afternoon, unfortunately for me, a fairly uneventful one as well. I’m thinking of calling it a day and heading home early for the weekend, besides I’m just getting in the way of all the contractors! We’re … Continue reading
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Tagged ecoEnergy, home renovation, HST, insulation retrofit, Ontario, ROI, Utility Bills
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Bill C-311 Passes Vote
The Climate Change Accountability Act (Bill C-311) has passed a second vote in the House of Commons and will now move on to a final debate and vote, which is scheduled to be held some time in late May. If … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill C-311, ecoEnergy, greenhouse emissions, Insulation, retrofit
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OPG Seeks Rate Hike
On March 29, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) announced that it seeks to raise its rates by 9.6 percent. Combined with the implementation of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) on July 1, which will increase consumption levies on energy bills to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bills, HST, Insulation, Ontario Power Generation, retrofit, Utility Bills
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ecoEnergy Grant Program
The announcement last Thursday (April 1st, 2010) that the Federal government was no longer entertaining new audits that would qualify for the ecoEnergy grant program caught many people by surprise. This does require some clarification. Essentially if you have already … Continue reading
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Tagged ecoEnergy rebate, energy audit, Insulation, retrofit, Utility Bills
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HST
The Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) will hit all homeowners looking to have professional contractors do any work to their homes after June 30th, 2010. The reason is quite simple. provincial sales tax only applied to the value of goods supplied … Continue reading
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Tagged ecoEnergy, energy audit, HST, Insulation, Ontario, retrofit
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